Cut-off for planters



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.D. M. PARRY.

} GUT-OFF FOR PLANTBRS.

No. 347,637. Patented Aug. 17, 1886.

DAVID M. PARRY, OF RUSHVILLE, INDIANA.

PATENT I FFECEO CUT-OFF Fo'R PLANTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 347,637, dated August1'7, 188

Application filed November 16, 1885. Serial 130182929.

To aZZ whom it may concern: 4

Be it known that I, DAVID M. PARRY, of the city offltushville, county ofBush, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Gut-Offs for Planters, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my present invention is to provide a cut-off for thefeeding mechanism of that class'of planters designed especially for theplanting of cotton or like seed, which shall not only efficiently cutoff the flow of seed during the intervals between the passage of thefingers of the force feeding device, but shall also operate to separatesaid seed asit is forced through it, and thus permit them to dropsingly, instead of in a wad or bunch, thereby overcoming this well-knowndisadvantage of other planters, as will be hereinafter more particularlydescribed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof,and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figurel is a side elevation of a planter embodying my said invention, onecorner of the hopper being broken out to show the position of thecut-off more clearly, Fig. 2, a cross-section through the cutoff andadjacent parts on the dotted line 2 2; Fig. 3, a longitudinal verticalsection similar to a portion of Fig.1, on an enlarged scale; Fig. 4, adetail under side plan view of the cut-off, and Fig. 5 a perspectiveview of the same.

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent the frame-work; B, thehopper; O feeding mechanism, and D the cut-off.

The planter shown is in all particulars, with the exception of thecut-off, of the construction shown and described in Letters Patent No.325,763, granted me on the 8th day of September, 1885, thehopper beinglongitudinally adjustable, as therein. These parts will not, therefore,be described herein,exeept incidentally, in the description of the cutoff to which this invention is confined.

The cut-01f D consists of a series of flexible fingers provided withoutwardly-projecting teeth don their faces, secured on each side of theslot or opening in the bottom of the hopper, said teeth projecting fromeach side to or 5o. nearly to the center of said opening, and thus (Nomodel.)

closing it and preventing any seed from escaping,exeept when forcedthrough by the force feeding device. The edges of said opening, to whichsaid flexible fingers are secured, are preferably formed rounded, asshown, and thus the lower ends of said fingers are held toward eachother by the center of said edge, while they are at the same timepermitted to be forced back under said center to permit the seed toescape Said fingers are preferably formed of heavy leather, it beingcheap, suitable, and the teeth being easily mounted thereon; but theymay of course be formed from any flexible material which is suitablewithout departing from my invention.

The operation of my invcntionis as follows: The seed being in the hopperand the planter being put in operation, the fingers c of the forcefeeding device pass down through the opening in the hopper between thesets of fingers, forcing a quantity of seed down through them, the teeththereon operating to separate said seed as it is forced down between andamong them, and causing said seed to fall singly, instead of in awad orbunch. The forcefinger having passed through the fingers spring back inposition and cut off any further flow of seed until the nextforce-finger passes through.

I am aware that cut-offs for planters have heretofore been madeconsisting of a series of fingers extending across the opening in thehopper. I therefore do not wish to be understood as claiming thefingers, broadly; but I do claim, broadly, the construction herein shownand described, consisting of parts provided with teeth on their facesand secured at the edge of the opening in the hopper.

Having thus fully described my said invention,what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cut-off for planters, consisting of flexible parts having teethmounted upon their faces, said parts being secured to the edges of theopening in the h0pper,with said teeth projecting toward the centerthereof, substantially as set. forth.

2. A cut-off for planters, consisting of flexible parts secured to the,edges of the opening in the hopper, said parts having teeth mount- ICCed thereon, and said edges being formed round- In witness whereof I havehereunto set my ed, substantially as described, and for the purhand andseal, at Rushville, Indiana, this 13th [0' poses specified. day ofNovember, A. D. 1885.

3. A out-off for planters consistin" of a T T 5 series of flexiblefingers secured to the edges ID PARKS of the opening in the hopper, saidfingers having ontwardly-projeeting teeth thereon, substantially as setforth.

In presence of-' WM. J. HENLEY, BEN L. SMITH.

